Re: Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS

[Jonah Horowitz <jonahdark1 () yahoo com>]

This point has been made re+peat+ly by the White-Hat (and other)
communities.  Wireless lans are totally public.  Furthermore, most
people don't even use WEP!  So everything is cleartext.  There was a
great presentation at DefCon about hacking wireless networks.  There
are something like 40 accessible WAPs (wireless access points) from the
corner of First and Market in SF.  (That's the financial district for
those not in the bay area)  Only 40% of all WAPs were running WEP, and
of these running WEP only 15% were actually secure (running IPSEC or
some other variant).


Jonah Horowitz
White-Hat, etc...



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